Melanie Adams: J.D., Law, University of Toronto; B.Sc., University of Waterloo. Melanie is Vice President & Head, Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment for RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM) and a member of the Executive Committee. The CGRI team supports RBC GAM’s investment teams in integrating environmental, social and governance factors into the investment process, engages in active stewardship and provides meaningful client reporting on responsible investment. Melanie joined RBC GAM in 2014 and has also held roles in Fund Governance and Strategy. Prior to working at RBC GAM, Melanie was Senior Counsel, Litigation for another large financial institution, and Enforcement Counsel at the Ontario Securities Commission (where she spent time working at the Office of the Criminal Crown Attorney).

Helene Banks is a member of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP’s corporate practice group.

Helene advises publicly-held and private companies in significant corporate and securities matters, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. She has represented sellers, acquirers, targets, financial institutions, shareholders and investors in M&A transactions, spin-offs, joint ventures, private and public equity and debt offerings, and tender offers. Her work ranges from managing complex international transactions for large public companies to guiding owners through investments in their privately held businesses. Her breadth of experience gives her a unique ability to spot and solve issues and understand all aspects of complicated transactions. Helene is recognized as a leading M&A lawyer by The Legal 500 and is recognized for both M&A and Capital Markets Debt & Equity by IFLR1000 2019. She was also named among the 2020 Notable Women in Law by Crain’s New York Business.

Amy Borrus became executive director of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) in July 2020. She joined CII in 2006 as deputy director, and was interim executive director in 2015-2016. She serves on the boards of the CII Research and Education Fund and the Sinai Assisted Housing Foundation. She also serves on the Best Practice Principles Oversight Committee, which will monitor principles underpinning services of leading proxy advisory firms. Prior to CII, she was a correspondent for Businessweek magazine for more than 20 years. Her journalism career included multi-year assignments in London, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. She earned an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in History and English from the University of Pennsylvania.

In her role as Executive Vice Chair, Ann represents Mastercard around the world, focusing on inclusion, diversity and innovation. She plays the important role of senior ambassador and executive leader and sits as part of the company’s global management committee. Prior to her current appointment, Ann was President of International Markets responsible for the management of all Mastercard customer-related activities in over 200 countries.

Ann is currently chair of ICE Clear Europe, owned by the Fortune 500 company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). She is also global chair of the 30% Club, the chair of the Financial Alliance for Women and serves as a member of the UK government’s AI Council and the IBDE advisory board. She has a Pure Mathematics degree and honorary doctorate from Sheffield University and a M.Sc. with research into medical statistics and honorary doctorate from Newcastle University.

Anna C. Catalano manages an active board portfolio, serving as an independent director for public and private corporations and not-for-profit organizations. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Willis Towers Watson, Kraton Corporation, HollyFrontier Corporation, Frontdoor, Inc., and Appvion. She is a certified Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and President of the NACD Texas TriCities Chapter. In the not-for-profit sector, Ms. Catalano is a member of the Board of Directors of Houston Grand Opera, and Co-Founder of The World Innovation Network, and a former Board Director of the Alzheimer’s Association.

With over 30 years of corporate experience including eighteen years of service on public boards, Ms. Catalano is an expert on the topics of board governance and leadership, and an outspoken champion of women in business. Her extensive career spanned three continents in marketing, retail operations, and international business development at Amoco, and subsequently, BP plc.

Katherine Collins is Head of Sustainable Investing at Putnam Investments and portfolio manager for Putnam’s Sustainable Leaders and Sustainable Future strategies, with approximately $6 billion in assets under management.

In addition to her investment roles, Ms. Collins is an author and beekeeper, and serves on numerous boards, including the Santa Fe Institute, Omega Institute, Last Mile Health, and Harvard Divinity School Dean’s Council.

Arthur B. Crozier is Chairman of Innisfree M&A Incorporated of New York and of Lake Isle M&A Incorporated, Innisfree’s wholly-owned UK subsidiary.

Mr. Crozier’s practice includes the representation of U.S. and international clients in a wide variety of transactions and proxy contests, as well as annual and special meetings. In addition, he counsels an international roster of clients on executive compensation, corporate governance and shareholder engagement issues.

Mr. Crozier has written numerous articles and spoken extensively on the subjects of corporate governance, shareholder engagement, proxy contests, hedge fund activism, executive compensation and international voting practices.

He received his B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross and his J.D. degree from Boston College Law School.

Anne-Sophie is Co-Founder and Deputy CEO at CIAM, a European Event Driven & Activist investment management firm, which she co-founded with Catherine Berjal in 2010. Over the last five years, the funds managed by CIAM have been involved in a number of engaged situations, the most public ones being Club Med and Euro Disney, which each time addressed poor corporate governance practices.

Anne-Sophie has a professional experience of more than twenty years in Finance, amongst which fifteen years in the Hedge Fund industry. Prior to launching CIAM, Anne-Sophie worked eight years at Systeia Capital Management, a Paris based hedge fund manager, subsidiary of Amundi, mainly as a portfolio manager of their Event Driven funds.

Anne-Sophie holds a Master degree in Finance from Rouen Business School (NEOMA).

Heidi DuBois is an environmental, social and governance (ESG) expert with two decades of experience in the legal, corporate governance and sustainability areas. Heidi has advised numerous companies on ESG strategy, execution and reporting; engagement with investors and other stakeholders; and partnerships with NGOs and civil society organizations to advance ESG objectives.

Heidi holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the Business in Society Institute at Berkeley Law School and the GreenBiz GreenFin Summit. She is a past member of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Leaders Forum, a past president of the New York chapter of the Society for Corporate Governance, and serves as a Trustee for the Unitarian Church of All Souls.

Heidi resides in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Michael Flaherty is a senior vice president at Gladstone Place Partners, where has advised companies on shareholder activism defense and preparation, M&A, corporate governance communications, CEO transitions and reputation management. His activist work includes advising AT&T on its engagement with Elliott Management, advising Citigroup on its engagement with ValueAct Capital, and Cars.com during Starboard Value’s campaign for change.

Michael’s M&A work includes advising ADT on its partnership with Google/Nest, advising Spark Therapeutics during its antitrust review for the company’s sale to Roche, Barrick Gold’s pursuit and eventual joint venture with Newmont Mining and The Walt Disney Company on its $71 billion acquisition of the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox. He has also worked on corporate communications and investor relations mandates for companies such as Accenture, DXC Technology, Pfizer and GE.

Deborah Gilshan provides strategic advice on investment stewardship, sustainable finance and diversity. She has extensive experience engaging globally with board directors, senior leaders, regulators and investors gained through a career spanning two decades in institutional investment. An Ambassador for the 30% Club, Deborah was instrumental in building the 30% Club UK Investor Group into a global coalition of institutional investors with £11 trillion assets under management. Deborah is a Fellow of ICSA: The Governance Institute and chairs the Ethics & Systemic Risk of the International Corporate Governance Network. She is a regular commentator on corporate governance, shareholder engagement and diversity and her work has featured in the Financial Times, the New York Times and other mainstream financial media.

In 2011, Deborah founded The 100% Club, a multi-sector alliance dedicated to gender equality, and she is a Senior Advisor to the Women Societies Alliance, an initiative to create equal opportunities in the finance industry for female graduates. Deborah has been recognised for her work on empowering the female talent pipeline and promoting gender diversity.

Kal Goldberg is a Partner at Finsbury and leads the firm’s U.S. Capital Markets and Transactions Practice. He advises managements and boards on communications strategies across a wide variety of domestic and cross-border M&A, restructuring, shareholder activism defense and preparedness, IPO, litigation and crisis situations. He is a frequent speaker on ESG issues.

Recent representations include Grubhub in its acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway; JCrew Group in its financial restructuring; Nightstar in its acquisition by Biogen; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in its acquisition of Shire Pharmaceuticals; Express Scripts in its sale to Cigna and subsequent deal defense against Icahn Enterprises; Tribune Media Company in its proposed acquisition by Sinclair Broadcasting Group and subsequent acquisition by NextStar Media; Praxair, Inc. in its merger with Linde AG and; SABMiller in its merger with AB InBev.

Kal holds an MBA in finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

Dan Hanson is Chief Investment Officer of Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc., and of the company’s asset manager, Ivy Investment Management Company. He is responsible for leading the firm’s Investment Management Division and serves as a member of the company’s executive leadership team. Mr. Hanson joined the company in 2019 as senior vice president and CIO, bringing over 25 years of investment and leadership experience.

Mr. Hanson has served as an investment executive at BlackRock, Jarislowsky Fraser, and JANA Partners. He brings significant experience in global and ESG investing through his work at BlackRock, where he spent 10 years as a portfolio manager and as Managing Director, Office of the CIO. He managed the BlackRock Socially Responsible Equity strategy as well as co-led the Large Cap Series funds with $23 billion in assets under management and maintained a leadership role in establishing the firm’s ESG
initiatives.

Mr. Hanson received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and French from Middlebury College, and earned an MBA, Accounting and Analytic Finance, from The University of Chicago. He is a CFA charterholder.

Alexandra Higgins is a Managing Director at Okapi Partners providing strategic counsel to corporate clients and their advisors with a focus on governance and compensation issues, as well as other ESG concepts.

Alex has over 15 years of experience in corporate advisory and governance roles. Prior to joining Okapi Partners, she served as VP and Head of U.S. Partner Advisory Services at Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) Corporate Solutions, where she managed advisory services for U.S. professional services firms on ISS policy, corporate governance issues, equity plan disclosure, and shareholder activism.

In 2008, Alex was named a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern Maine.

Preston Hopson is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK), a leading provider of consulting, engineering, and technical services with 20,000 employees around the world. He is member of the Executive Leadership Team and provides oversight for all human resources and legal matters, including corporate governance, litigation, compliance and regulatory and governmental affairs.

Prior to joining Tetra Tech, Preston served as Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at the engineering and infrastructure firm AECOM. He previously was a Senior Associate with O’Melveny & Myers, LLP as well as a Judicial Clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Preston sits on the board of directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel – Southern California and the Leadership Council of the Posse Foundation, which provides college scholarships to students with leadership potential. He also is an adjunct professor at the USC Gould School of Law.

Preston holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale University.

Rick Horvath serves as a trusted advisor on a range of corporate governance matters, representing boards of directors, significant investors, and public companies. As a result, Mr. Horvath has had the benefit of advising both companies and investors across numerous matters, from activist campaigns to contested corporate takeovers to corporate disclosures. He has also advised companies and their boards with respect to navigating board conflicts, to the operation of company and board-level internal controls, and to enhancing corporate governance documents and policies.

In addition, Mr. Horvath is a litigator focusing on corporate governance disputes and other complex commercial matters. He has represented public companies, directors, officers, and investors as lead counsel and second-chair counsel in courts across the country. Mr. Horvath also has represented companies and directors in connection with stockholder demands, internal investigations, and special litigation committees. His experience also extends to responding to matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Cynthia Jamison, serves on the Board of Directors of Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:TSCO), a position she has held since 2002, where she is Chairman of the Board, after serving as Lead Director, and Chair of the Audit, Compensation & Corporate Governance Committees. Since 2013, she also serves on the Office Depot Board (NASDAQ: ODP) where she Chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Compensation committee. Ms Jamison was elected to serve on the Darden Restaurants Board (NYSE: DRI) in October 2014 as part of a complete Board replacement slate through Starboard Value’s proxy fight; there, she serves as Chair of the Audit Committee as well as serving on the Compensation Committee. In May of 2015 she joined the BigLots, Inc (NYSE: BIG) Board where she sits on the Capital Allocation and Compensation Committees and Chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee.

She is a frequent keynote speaker on CFO and Boardroom topics, and quoted as a financial/economic expert in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CFO Magazine, Agenda, Board Member and the Economist. She is also an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and was awarded the “Top 100 Director” honor in 2017.

Jonas is Trillium’s Chief Advocacy Officer. With over twenty years of experience in shareholder advocacy, Jonas is responsible for leading and coordinating Trillium’s extensive advocacy program, which works to engage companies on their environmental and social performance. His advocacy work includes direct communications with company leadership, investor education and awareness, shareholder proposals, and public policy advocacy at the municipal, state, and federal levels. As a recognized legal expert in the field and a leader in shareholder advocacy, Jonas regularly represents Trillium in the media, at public events, and with clients. Jonas currently serves as the Secretary of the US SIF board and as co-chair of the organization’s public policy committee. Prior to joining Trillium, Jonas was an environmental attorney and public defender as well as outside counsel to many socially responsible investment organizations. Jonas holds J.D. and masters degrees from Vermont Law School.

Jared L. Landaw is a Partner, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Barington Capital Group, L.P., a value-oriented investment firm that assists publicly traded companies in designing and implementing initiatives to improve long-term value. He is also a member of the Thirty Percent Coalition, the Board of Directors of Costar Technologies, Inc. and the Board of Trustees of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City. Mr. Landaw writes and speaks frequently about board diversity, shareholder activism and corporate governance matters. He holds a B.A. from Colgate University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Managing Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review.

Experienced director with over 28 years of service on 9 public and one private board and 15 years as an investment banker on all value creation matters, including M&A, capital raises and allocation and advisory across a broad range of industries. Financial expert. Experienced in business transformation, including innovation; crisis management; leadership development, and activist dynamics. International experience. Chaired Audit, Risk and Compensation Committees and sat on Governance/Nominating, Ethics/Quality, Executive, Strategic Alternatives, CEO Search and other Special Committees. Deep governance experience. Clients included Roche Holdings, AMD, ICI, Sandoz, Orient Leasing, Epsilon Data, General Signal, Occidental Petroleum, and others.

Marian Macindoe is Head of ESG Strategy & Engagement at Uber. Prior to Uber, she was Director of Investment Stewardship at Charles Schwab Investment Management where she voted proxies for all Schwab Funds. Before that, she served as an ESG Global Issues Advisor at Chevron and as Director of Research at Glass Lewis, a leading proxy advisor.

Marian has a BA from Reed College in International and Comparative Policy Studies (Economics) and an MSc from London School of Economics in Regional and Urban Planning. She sits on the board of a nonprofit that serves youth transitioning out of foster care, First Place for Youth, based in Oakland, CA.

James has considerable experience in advising investment firms of all sizes on the ongoing management, protection and promotion of their reputation. Having worked in both London and the Middle East, James’ clients have included some of the world’s most prominent investment firms in the UK, Europe, US and GCC, often advising them during periods of critical change.

James has extensive experience in advising on firm and fund launches, fundraising, issues management and ESG and sustainable issues relating to investment strategies and positions. James also has considerable experience advising on complex M&A and sovereign debt restructurings.

Caitlin McSherry is a Vice President and Director of Investment Stewardship at Neuberger Berman. In this capacity, she leads the firm’s work on engagement and governance across the investment platform, oversees the firm’s proxy voting guidelines, and provides thought leadership on active ownership and ESG topics. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman in 2020, she was a Vice President and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analyst on the Asset Stewardship team at State Street Global Advisors where she was responsible for developing and implementing the firm’s proxy voting guidelines and led engagements with management and board members on ESG issues. Previously, Caitlin worked in the energy sector where she managed the development of utility-scale renewable energy projects and crafted environmental liability risk management strategies. Caitlin earned a BA in Environmental Studies from Northeastern University and an MA in Sustainability and Environmental Management from the Harvard Extension School. Caitlin holds the SASB FSA credential.

Drawing on more than 25 years of litigation experience, Stacey Mitchell represents clients in complex criminal and civil litigation. She also provides strategic advice to companies on a wide range of environmental regulatory matters, including compliance assistance, project development and climate adaptation.

Stacey has particular experience in crisis management, including managing the tensions between business-critical decisions and developing defensive litigation strategy.

Stacey has held senior legal roles in government at the federal level. She served as Deputy General Counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Environmental Crimes Section (ECS). She brings a deep understanding of the inner workings of both agencies, applying her insight to help clients mitigate crises and in developing and maintaining robust compliance programs.

Brandon Nelson is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at JetBlue, with responsibility for legal, compliance, ESG and sustainability, and cybersecurity at the growing airline.

Nelson joined JetBlue in 2005 and has held a number of leadership roles within the legal team. His diverse experience includes leading a team of transactional lawyers who represent the company in commercial, marketing, real estate, business development, intellectual property and technology matters.

Prior to JetBlue, Brandon practiced corporate and business litigation law at firms in California and New York, most recently at Shearman & Sterling.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Howard University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Cassie Nielsen is Talent Partner for VMG Partners and Executive Director of the Women On Boards Project (WOB Project). VMG is a consumer investor in iconic brands such as KIND, Drunk Elephant, Sun Bum, Daily Harvest, Nature’s Bakery, Pill Club, Quest Nutrition, Stone Brewing and Vega, to name a few. The WOB Project is a non-profit launched in early 2020 with the goal of increasing gender diversity of consumer company boards. The effort is backed by consumer investors such as VMG, L Catterton, TSG, Encore and others and has helped place new board members pro bono at companies like Simple Mills, Revolve, USUAL Wines, aden + anais and Humm Kombucha.

Ian focuses on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, shareholder activism, corporate governance, takeover defense strategies and related matters. He has advised a range of public and private companies and investors across multiple industries, including technology, life sciences, financial institutions, consumer, gaming and leisure and industrials.

Ian has also advised many companies and boards in takeover defense and activist defense strategies, including Medivation, EQT Corporation, TransAlta Corporation, Penn Virginia Corporation and Full House Resorts. He has been opposite many well-known activist hedge funds, including Trian Partners, Elliott Management Corporation, JANA Partners, Bluescape Energy Partners and Mangrove Partners.

Prior to joining Cooley, Ian was an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and clerked for the Honorable Leo E. Strine, Jr. on the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Troy A. Paredes is the founder of Paredes Strategies LLC. From 2008-2013, Paredes was an SEC Commissioner, appointed by President George W. Bush.

Paredes advises on financial regulation, compliance, risk management, corporate governance, and regulatory strategy. He also serves as an expert and advisor in regulatory enforcement investigations and in private litigation involving securities law and corporate law. Paredes has brought his extensive government, compliance, enforcement, and regulatory experience to bear in serving as an independent compliance consultant/corporate monitor.

Paredes was a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis before joining the SEC. He also has been a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU School of Law, and a Distinguished Policy Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Paredes holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from UC Berkeley and earned his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Veena leads Ceres’ work on critical market levers that will help scale the transition to sustainable capital markets. This includes governance systems that companies should put in place at the corporate board level to allow for effective board sustainability oversight. She also oversees Ceres work to engage financial regulators on climate change as a systemic risk, under the umbrella of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets.

Veena is the author of the 2020 Ceres report, Addressing Climate as a Systemic Risk: A call to action for US Financial Regulators, which makes the case that climate change poses systemic risk to US financial markets, and outlines over 50 action steps that financial market regulators can take to address this risk.

William Regner is Deputy Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance Groups. He focuses on public company transactions and corporate governance matters and advises boards, special committees and senior management on governance issues, including activist challenges and risk management. He has experience across many industries but is particularly active in the TMT and asset management sectors. He also regularly represents investment banking firms in their roles as financial advisors in major transactions. Mr. Regner was recognized as a “Client Service All-Star” by BTI Consulting in 2018.

Mr. Regner is ranked as a leading M&A lawyer by Chambers USA (2020), where he receives praise for his “great perspective and judgment,” and where clients note his “command of details and balanced view.” Sources have also said he “has the knowledge and experience, but his approach is pragmatic, commercial and practical” and that he has “outstanding technical knowledge and commercial awareness” and “comes up with creative solutions.”

Paul Schneider is the Head of Corporate Governance at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. In his role, Paul leads Ontario Teachers’ global corporate governance initiatives, overseeing the corporate governance across all global public holdings. He has responsibility for advancing Ontario Teachers’ corporate governance policies and practices which includes the development and application of Teachers’ proxy voting guidelines and process, the execution of the Fund’s public company governance engagement program, and the interaction with regulatory bodies across markets to promote regulation that considers the interests of shareholders. He has also collaborated with peers on a number of projects such as improving the proxy voting system in Canada and creating thought leadership with respect to the use of discretionary compensation at Canadian and US public companies.

Paul has over 15 years of corporate governance experience. He joined Ontario Teachers’ in 2010 after 7 years with the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG).

Anne Simpson joined CalPERS in 2009 and was named interim managing investment director for Board Governance & Sustainability in June 2020.

She is responsible for strategic initiatives across the Fund. These include Climate Action 100+ (a global investor alliance of $40 trillion driving business action on climate change), the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, and the UN Secretary General’s Global Investors for Sustainable Development. Specific programs within investments include the Emerging Manager Program and the sustainable investment strategic plan.

In 2019 she was named by Time Magazine as one of the 15 women leading the global fight on climate change and in 2020 one of the 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance by Barron’s (Dow Jones). For 10 consecutive years from 2010-20 Anne has been ranked by the National Association of Corporate Directors as one of the year’s 100 most influential people in the boardroom.

Rick Sinkfield serves as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, positions he has held since June 2020. In these roles, Mr. Sinkfield is responsible for all global legal affairs, corporate governance, corporate compliance and all regulatory matters.

Mr. Sinkfield previously served as Laureate’s Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Latin America. He has been with Laureate since 2004, and during this time has overseen the work of corporate and university counsel across eight countries, including serving as Regional General Counsel for Brazil for five years.

Mr. Sinkfield practiced law at several top U.S. law firms prior to joining Laureate, including the Washington DC offices of Sidley Austin LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School and has served on multiple non-profit boards in the United States and across Latin America.

Mr. White is co-founder and a Managing Director of Legion Partners Asset Management. Prior to founding Legion Partners, Mr. White most recently served in various functions with Knight Vinke Asset Management, a European-based activist fund manager. Positions included Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, where he was responsible for finance, operations, legal, marketing and client service functions. He is a former Deputy Director of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), where responsibilities included policy development and implementation. Previous to Knight Vinke, Mr. White was a Portfolio Manager, Director of Corporate Governance, for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (“CalPERS”), where he was responsible for all components of its Governance Program, including $3 billion in active management, policy development and implementation, proxy voting and focused engagement activities. Prior to CalPERS, Mr. White was an Investment Officer – Deputy State Treasurer at the California State Treasurer’s Office, where his duties included fixed income portfolio analysis and trading, among other responsibilities.

Lauren Taylor Wolfe is co-founder and Managing Partner of Impactive Capital. Prior to founding Impactive she spent 10 years at Blue Harbour Group, a $3 billion activist investment firm, where she was a Managing Director and Investing Partner. Focused primarily on select sectors including, Technology, Consumer, Business and Healthcare Services, Lauren led many of the firm’s investments where she advised CEOs and boards on capital allocation, strategic opportunities and ESG considerations.

Prior to joining Blue Harbour in 2007, Lauren was a Portfolio Manager at SIAR Capital, where she invested in small capitalization public companies and private companies. Lauren began her career at Diamond Technology Partners, a strategic technology consulting firm.

Lauren received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. magna cum laude from Cornell University. Lauren is active on various boards including, HD Supply [Nasdaq: HDS], a $9 billion enterprise value industrial distributor, 30% Club Steering Committee, an Angel Member of 100 Women in Finance. Lauren was named one of the 50 leading women in hedge funds globally by Hedge Fund Journal.

Suzanne Yoon is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kinzie Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on making control investments in lower middle market companies with up to $15mm of EBITDA.

Prior to Kinzie, Ms. Yoon was a Managing Director of Versa Capital Management, LLC, a private equity firm where she led transaction development throughout North America. Prior to Versa, Ms. Yoon was a Senior Vice President of CIT Group, co-founded LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO’s Corporate Restructuring Group, and held positions in distressed loan portfolio management and advisory at LaSalle Bank and Ernst and Young’s Corporate Finance Group, respectively.

Ms. Yoon sits on several boards, including the National Philanthropic Trust where she serves as a Board Trustee and Vice Chair of the Investment Committee. She also serves on the steering committees of PE WIN (Private Equity Women’s Investor Network) and the Chicago chapter of the Women’s Association of Venture and Equity. Ms. Yoon is an Executive Scholar from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and received a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Iowa.